I live in UK and have a DVB-T card in my slimserver PC. I have been trying to remote control the card from the Squeezebox remote for some time.
With the help of bpa and My Picks I have now got to the stage where I can now assign a single favourite key to a DVB-T radio channel and the DVB-T card changes channel and the SB displays the channel name and plays the appropriate channel on the SB at relatively high quality (Better than DAB/Not as good as top notch FM). I thought I'd share this here and see if anyone can take it a stage further by developing a dedicated plug-in which is beyond my capabilities. My foreshortened menu is 1 BBC World Service 2 BBC Radio 2 3 BBC Radio 3 4 BBC Radio 4 5 BBC Radio 5 Live 6 BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra 7 BBC 7 Of course this can be edited from any of the available DVB-T radio channels or even TV channel sound. The card is a Hauppauge Nova-T (90002 Variant) using My Theatre software and the AVBroadcaster plug-in to provide a web-server for changing the channel. (I believe My Theatre works on other DVB-T cards but I haven't checked any of them). The AVB broadcaster also streams TV but unfortunately does not stream radio only channels and is used here purely for it's channel changing function. My Theatre allows the construction of personalised graphs and a radio only graph can be created in which the TV/Video filters are not called up and the audio stream can be passed in the digital domain to an external program like Virtual Audio Cable. This stream is then fed to a shoutcast server through Winamp or a slightly better GUI/better encoding options is available in the Simplecast software. Playlists are created for EACH radio channel with a simple two line formula Line 1 webserver channel change Line 2 Shoutcast server output. Now a My Picks menu is created with a reference to each play list (Thanks bpa for sorting this out for me). Slimserver can't play the 1st line but sends the code to the web-server and changes the DVB-T Channel - it then moves on to the second line of the playlist and ensures that it listens to the output of the shoutcast server and displays the correct channel name. I have seen this as a "Nice to Have" on the wiki. Is there any interest? Does anyone want to take it further? Some suggestions for a single integrated plug-in: 1. Elimination of Shoutcast server and feeding of Virtual Audio Cable directly into slimserver and conversion from output stream to FLAC. (I think andyg has suggested this elsewhere). 2. Integration of My Picks like menu editing plug-in allowing two line options per menu item. -- ian_heys ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ian_heys's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2629 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26295 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
